It is that of discarding every remnant of rancor against each other, of embracing, as countrymen and friends, and of yielding to talents and virtue alone that confidence which, in times of contention for principle, was bestowed only upon those who bore the badge of party communion.
"The collisions of party spirit, which originate in speculative opinions, or in different views of administrative policy, are in their nature transitory.

Those which are founded on geographical divisions, adverse interests of soil, climate, and modes of domestic life, are more permanent, and therefore, perhaps, more dangerous.

It is this which gives inestimable value to the character of our Government, at once federal and national.

It holds out to us a perpetual admonition to preserve, alike, and with equal anxiety, the rights of each individual State in its own Government, and the rights of the whole nation in that of the Union.
Whatever is of domestic concernment, unconnected with the other members of the Union, or with foreign lands, belongs exclusively to the administration of the State Governments.

Whatsoever directly involves the rights and interests of the federative fraternity, or of foreign powers, is, of the resort of this General Government.